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<span class=prefix>2LT</span> Neil W Frame

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2LT Neil W Frame

Birth
Porterville, Tulare County, California, USA
Death
3 Apr 1942 (aged 24)
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
Burial
Porterville, Tulare County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
B-125-2
Memorial ID
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Veteran WWII

www.cagenweb.com/cpl/tulare/tcpc1.htm

2nd Lieutenant Frame perished when U.S. Army Air Corps B-25A Mitchell #40-2193 crashed near Greenwich, Rhode Island. Four other airmen were also killed.

FIVE ARMY FLIERS DIE AS BOMBER CRASHES, EXPLODES IN RHODE ISLAND.

West Greenwich, R.I. -- Five army fliers, including two officers, were killed today when a medium bomber on a routine flight crashed, exploded and burned in woods on Hopkins Hill. The bomber, reported overdue at Westover Field, Mass., carried two officers and three enlisted men when it crashed. Headquarters of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field identified the dead as:
Pilot, Second Lieut. GEORGE L. DOVER, 25, of Shelby, N.C.
Co-pilot, Second Lieut. NEIL W. FRAME, 24, of Porterville, Cal.
Radio operator, Staff Sergeant R. H. TRAMMEL, 25, of Brunswick, Ga.
Bombardier, Pvt. R. R. MEREDITH, 21, Memphis, Tenn.
Gunner, Pvt. T. J. RUSH, 27, of Philadelphia.
The wreckage was discovered after farmers had reported to the army's Hillsgrove airport, a few miles east of here, that they heard a crash and saw flames near Hopkins Hill at about 6:30 a.m.
One farmer and two of his children who hurried to the scene to investigate, pending arrival of military authorities, were felled when the blazing wreckage exploded. They were not injured, however. Two truckloads of soldiers and four state troopers were sent to the scene. They reported that all that remained of the plane was a single engine, wing tips and a small section of the fuselage buried in a fire-blackened crater.

The Coshocton Tribune Ohio 1942-04-03
Veteran WWII

www.cagenweb.com/cpl/tulare/tcpc1.htm

2nd Lieutenant Frame perished when U.S. Army Air Corps B-25A Mitchell #40-2193 crashed near Greenwich, Rhode Island. Four other airmen were also killed.

FIVE ARMY FLIERS DIE AS BOMBER CRASHES, EXPLODES IN RHODE ISLAND.

West Greenwich, R.I. -- Five army fliers, including two officers, were killed today when a medium bomber on a routine flight crashed, exploded and burned in woods on Hopkins Hill. The bomber, reported overdue at Westover Field, Mass., carried two officers and three enlisted men when it crashed. Headquarters of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field identified the dead as:
Pilot, Second Lieut. GEORGE L. DOVER, 25, of Shelby, N.C.
Co-pilot, Second Lieut. NEIL W. FRAME, 24, of Porterville, Cal.
Radio operator, Staff Sergeant R. H. TRAMMEL, 25, of Brunswick, Ga.
Bombardier, Pvt. R. R. MEREDITH, 21, Memphis, Tenn.
Gunner, Pvt. T. J. RUSH, 27, of Philadelphia.
The wreckage was discovered after farmers had reported to the army's Hillsgrove airport, a few miles east of here, that they heard a crash and saw flames near Hopkins Hill at about 6:30 a.m.
One farmer and two of his children who hurried to the scene to investigate, pending arrival of military authorities, were felled when the blazing wreckage exploded. They were not injured, however. Two truckloads of soldiers and four state troopers were sent to the scene. They reported that all that remained of the plane was a single engine, wing tips and a small section of the fuselage buried in a fire-blackened crater.

The Coshocton Tribune Ohio 1942-04-03


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  • Created by: Nancee Russell
  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85640926/neil_w-frame: accessed ), memorial page for 2LT Neil W Frame (20 Sep 1917–3 Apr 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 85640926, citing Porterville Cemetery, Porterville, Tulare County, California, USA; Maintained by Nancee Russell (contributor 46623544).